Nurses at the Tamale Central Hospital have threatened to lay down their tools by Friday (May 15, 2020), unless authorities in the region provide accommodation to their colleagues who have been asked to self isolate after they were exposed to a COVID-19 patient who died at the facility yesterday (May 13, 2020).
A petition sighted by our correspondent in Tamale, said asking the nurses to self-isolate is dangerous and puts relatives of the victims at risk.
The nurses have also demanded the provision of adequate PPEs for personnel at the facility to safeguard them from future exposure.
Twenty-nine nurses were asked to self-isolate after an eighty-year-old woman died of COVID-19 at the Tamale Central Hospital.
According to our Correspondent Murtala Issah, the regional director of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. John Eleeza on Tuesday (May 12, 2020), said a hotel in Tamale was chasing the Health Directorate for GH¢219,000 which is the cost of the isolating some staff of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
Sources say, the debt has compelled authorities to ask nurses at the Tamale Central Hospital to self-isolate.
The development has however left fears among the nurses and their colleagues.
They have therefore threatened to go on strike by Friday unless authorities take the 29 personnel to a safe house.
